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CELESTE September 2020
President’s Welcome
Welcome to this edition of Celeste! The EUBC Committee and myself do wish you and your
families well, and we hope you are safe and well following the recent Covid 19 Pandemic.
Covid 19 was not kind to the rowing community, and EUBC, like other clubs up and down the
country had our season cut horrendously short. Summer plans were cancelled and the club’s activity ground to a halt however we will be back, and we will be back stronger than ever!
I hope you enjoy this edition of Celeste and that we see you at an event soon!
Dan Baillache, President 2019 21
Success for EUBC Past and Present at SR Awards
During the lockdown period, Scottish Rowing announced the
winners of their 2018-19 Rowing Awards and there was
significant success for members of the EUBC community!
John Higson - Coach of the Year 18/19 - Alumnus John won the
award for the second time in recent years, after coaching his
squad to great success, including a BUCs VL win, a HWR win,
and also for coaching the GB U23 W4- to a gold medal at the
U23 Worlds in 2019.
Maddie Arlett - Senior Rower of the Year 18/19 - Maddie won the award for cementing
her position as one of the top lightweight rowers in the country, and indeed the world,
winning a bronze medal in the Lw1x at the 2019 World Championships.
Trini Duke - Senior Volunteer of the Year 18/19 - Alumna Trini won the award for her
contribution to St Andrew Boat Club, particularly in women’s rowing at the club.
Training in Lockdown
During the lockdown period, most of our athletes
returned home to spend the period of isolation with
their families. However this did not stop us from
training! The coaching team were able to deliver ergs
to most people who needed them before the
restrictions came into place, allowing many to get in
the miles at home. Here are some photos of the new
training environments that our athletes have been
making the most of throughout the pandemic - which
also included hikes up some munros! Thanks to our NHS Workers
EUBC would like to extend a massive Thank You to all
those members and alumni who have worked tirelessly
throughout the pandemic in the NHS, providing care
to everyone across the UK!
Alumna Polly Swann, who recently graduated, took a
break from her preparations for Tokyo 2020 (now 2021),
to serve as an Interim Foundation Doctor near to her
family home in Scotland.
If you are an alumnus who has been working in the
NHS through the pandemic do get in touch, we would
love to feature you in a future Celeste!
Blues and Colours
For the 2018/19 season,
five members of EUBC
have been awarded Blues
and Colours by The Univer-
sity of Edinburgh at a virtual
edition of the annual
ceremony!
Blues:
Lucy Glover, Dale Flockhart
and Dan Baillache
Colours:
Brianna Siddle and Maya
Doughty
Further to this Lucy Glover
w a s a w a r d e d t h e
prestigious Cameron Blue
of the Year Award, for the
best Blues Award for
2018/19.
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EUBC Committee 2020-21
At the end of February 2020, EUBC held its annual AGM in
Old College. After presentations on the club’s past year and current future plans going forward, the committee
for 2020-21 was elected as follows:
President - Dan Baillache
Vice President - Euan Dickerson
Treasurer - Ben Dickens
Secretary - Kate Duke
Senior Men’s Captain - Hugh Reilly
Senior Women’s Captain - Sarah Riches
Beginner Captain - Zoe Horne
Club Rowing Captains - Joe Stelling and Bethany Hickling
Kit Officer - Philip Garnier
Publicity Officer - Beltran Field
Sponsorship Officer - James Hodson
Alumni Officer - Henry Pooley
Ordinary Member - Lucy Glover
Social Secs - Jane Hardie and Immy Wolsencroft
EUBC’s Return to Rowing
EUBC is well on the way to returning to club activity as
the new term starts this week!
The club will be resuming the new Semester as close to
normal as possible, in line with local government, Scottish
Rowing and University of Edinburgh advice. The
coaching team have done a brilliant job in preparing our
facilities for the return of activity both on land at the
Pleasance and on the water, both at the Meggetland
Boat House and our facilities at Strathclyde Park. The
Dame Katherine Grainger Rowing Gym (affectionally
known as the DKG, pictured) has all been laid out in a
socially distant manner and welcomed its first athletes of
the new season on 11th September! Some athletes have
already been able to make it to Strathclyde Park, and
the Forth and Clyde Canal at Auchinstarry too, seen
below!
Success for Head of Rowing at BR Virtual
Champs
Head of Rowing (and St Andrew BC member), Colin
Williamson, won a bronze medal at the first British Rowing
Virtual Indoor Championships held during the lockdown,
in the M 30 2000m category. Congratulations Colin!
Head of Rowing’s Welcome
Like many of you, I suspect, I have had some
fairly introspective moments over the past six
months. Initial feelings of disappointment at the
curtailment of a promising season were then
somewhat overshadowed by concern for the
long term physical, social and economic
well being of friends, family and the country at
large.
As we prepared for the new academic year, it
would have been easy to dismiss rowing, and
sport in general, as trivial in the grand scheme of
things. However, as our new students arrive to an
austere welcome of classes from behind a screen, isolated dining in their
halls of residence and not a social event to be seen, we have a bigger
role to play than ever.
Through rowing, even with current restrictions, we have an opportunity to
provide a degree of normality that is so absent elsewhere. We can
provide the social interaction and camaraderie that has been stripped
from student life on so many ways.
So, far from being downbeat, I am more positive than ever in the strength
of our sport to add value to the young people we take into our care.
Colin Williamson, Head of Rowing, University of Edinburgh
Coaching Team Tideway Heads 2020
2020/21 While the Tideway Heads both all got cancelled this
year, WeHORR because of the fast stream conditions, Colin Williamson
and HoRR because of Covid-19, we were looking Head of Rowing forward to fielding one of the strongest sets of crews in
many years, with 4 women’s 8s set to race WeHORR
John Higson and 3 men’s 8s set to race HoRR. The first crews for each are detailed below:
Assistant Head of Rowing
and Senior Women’s Women’s 1st VIII Men’s 1st VIII
Coach B: Issy Jonsson B: Ben Dickens
2: Tara Grimsley-Moore 2: Lukas Neilsen Paddy Hudson
3: Bella O’Hara 3: Philip Garnier Senior Men’s Coach 4: Alice Ives 4: James Doran
5: Lucy Glover 5: Hugh Reilly
Michael Hughes 6: Robyn Patton 6: Matt Curtis
7: Lydia Currie 7: Harry Guy Performance Pathway S; Alex Rankin S: Henry Pooley
Coach C: Dan Baillache C: Lizzie Dickinson
Thank You Alumni!
Using donations from the Boat Club Alumni Fund, we
have been able to fully refurbish two coxed fours
from our canal fleet .
The two fours Livy II and Zebedee, are
currently with Hudson, and will be returning to us like
new in the early Autumn. The refurbished boats will
provide our Beginner and Club Rowing squads high
quality shells, primarily for races held across Scotland
and the UK. Further investment is also being made at
the Meggetland Canal BH, to help improve our
beginner and social/recreational rowing offering,
with the aim of increasing participation in the sport!
We couldn’t do this without your support - so many
thanks to all those who support the Alumni Fund
through donations. If you wish to make a donation to
the fund, or support the club financially, please do
get in touch with us!
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ExeEndurow - GB Row Success
New this year to the Edinburgh Novice Squad, Arthur
Chatto, in a herculean feat with his team of friends
from different Universities, attempted (and
succeeded) in becoming the youngest team to ever
row non-stop unsupported around the British Coast.
They completed this feat in 42 days, 8 hours and 23
minutes, rowing a total 1811.62 nautical miles. They so
far have raised just shy of £ 30,000, split 50/50
between supporting the British Red Cross in their
response to COVID-19, and Just One Ocean who
campaign for plastic-free oceans around the UK.
Their fundraising is still open now and can be found
at: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/exe-
endurow
Cycling Kit Fundraiser
Available for Alumni to buy now is some new EUBC
branded cycling gear, being sold in support of
Sporting Equals, a charity that works to promote
inclusivity and diversity in sport and physical
education. £ 4 from the sale of every jersey and
£ 2.50 from each pair of shorts will support them!
You can check them out now at https://rivalkit.com/
collections/yeah-pandas. The Password is: PANDA.
From the Archive
Thanks to all alumni who have submitted their
memories of EUBC to the club! In the next Celeste we
will be doing a feature highlighting these for you all,
but we wanted to give you a further opportunity to
send in your photos, memories, etc. for the Club
Historical Record! Shown here are some photos of the
1967 Tideway Crew, and the 2nd Four, sent in by
Peter Allen.
If you have any memories, please do send these to
Lightweight World Record
Harry Guy and Hugh Reilly (SM Cap), two of our
Senior Men’s squad have used lockdown to fundraise for great causes, and break world
records in the gruelling 24-hour ergometer in the
process. Harry was raising money for Alzheimer's
Society, and Hugh was rowing in support of
Mental Health Research UK. What started as an
attempt at breaking only the lightweight tandem
world record for their age category (20-29), they
put in an astounding performance to also break
the overall lightweight world record. They also
beat every heavyweight age category bar the
20-29 range, currently held by Olympians Sam
Loch and Matt Ryan from Australia. They rowed
an incredible 365,464 metres, an average split of
1:58.3 per 500m. Not only did they smash their first
target of 350km, but they also smashed their goal
of raising £ 1,000 for their respective causes,
generating an impressive £ 3,211.
Key Dates Other Fundraising Efforts
NB. All the following dates Several other members of the club set themselves are provisional events may tough targets for good causes. not happen due to ongoing
disruption. EUBC member James Doran completed a marathon
run around London, raising £ 1,220 for The Stephen 27-28/2/21 Lawrence Charitable Trust. EUBC member Immy
Wolstencroft also took to the roads to run 10 km a day BUCs Head, Newcastle
for the whole month of May, also raising £ 1,220 for her
6/3/21 chosen charity: The Running Charity.
Women’s Eights Head Elsewhere, SW Captain Sarah Riches (pictured) set
20/3/21 herself an adapted half Ironman triathlon to do, in aid
of Diabetes UK, as she herself suffers from type 1 Eights Head diabetes. She raised £ 868 for her cause. Cameron
1-3/5/21 Bradley with his friends ran the equivalent distance to
Moscow, with Cameron running himself the 4th most on BUCs Regatta, NWSC his team with 267.5 km in aid of Move4Minds, helping
18-20/6/21 raise just over £ 5,000. Henry Pooley and James Hodson,
completed relay ergo marathons with their families, Henley Women’s Regatta with their old school boat club in aid of the Slough Food
29/6-4/7/21 Bank.
Henley Royal Regatta
3/7/21
HRR Reception
23-31/7/21
Tokyo 2020 Olympic Regatta
24/7/21
Home International Regatta
Get in touch with EUBC!
www.edinburghrowing.co.uk @edinburghrowing
@edinburghrowing @EdinburghUniBC
